Husserl Quotes

“We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.”

“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”

“Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.”

“I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.”

“In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind.”